Eva and I both sat together and spoke about what we did and didn't want In our story and in which way we wanted our narrative to go. We focused on how to make a thriller without the stereotypical narrative of a conventional thriller but still including enough conventions to define it as a thriller therefore we have decided to include a car break down in a unknown place, we have decided to do this as it strongly suggests that our film is still a thriller, but have decided to challenge the conventions of the genre by making the main focus on 'Stan' the main character being a male, this challenges the conventions of a thriller because usually in this situation of being abandoned with a broken down car would be females, this is as they are seen to be 'weak', which supports Laura Mulveys 'Male Gaze theory' so in doing this we are disproving Laura Mulvey's theory.
'They wake up after uncomfortable nights sleep
hearing noises and screams in the night.' We have decided to add this in as to hear things like this in the night isn't anything out of the ordinary, birds flying, tweeting and other various sounds are normal, but when in a small group in unknown place it is clearly very scary, and not hard to imagine how scared yourself you'd be.
Stan and his friends notice that one of his friends, Harry has gone missing and
start seeing the ‘men with animals for faces’. We decided to go with farm animals faces as this is different. It's freaky, and unnerving as, the characters and audience are thinking 'Is it an animal or a person?' and not knowing and the uncertainty fits the conventions of a thriller.
'They call the police but they just think it’s a prank
call and don’t take the group seriously.' This is the perfect example or 'The boy who cried wolf' he has previously prank called the police before, therefore this is his own doing not being believed. Now he has tried to get the only help he can he has been rejected, now he is totally alone. We feel this is effective as that audience watching are going to watch on, wondering what is going to happen to the boy. Will he get the help he wants? If so will it be to late? This is the kind of tension we wanted to create not only to draw the audiences in but to keep them watching and wondering, also this 'what will happen next' question fits in with the conventions of a stereotypical thriller.
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